ACM Distinguished Scientist and IEEE Senior Member
Received seven teaching awards
Recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Provost Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2015)
Editorial service for VLDB J (2001–2007), IEEE TKDE (2012–2017), and DAPD (2011–present)
Published papers at top venues including EDBT (e.g., 'SlickDeque', 2018), IEEE BigData ('REQUEST' & 'ARGO', 2016), and VLDB
Keynote speaker at the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2017) on 'User-centric Techniques for Big Data Exploration'
Research Experience
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh since 1991
Director of the Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory (ADMT Lab) since 1996
Program Co-Chair of IEEE ICDE 2018
General/Co-Chair of multiple BIRTE workshops (e.g., BIRTE 2017, 2018)
Principal investigator on a $1.8M NIH U01 grant on 'Systems Level Causal Discovery in Heterogeneous TOPMed Data' (2017)